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RE: [Digital BW] 16-bit histogram was Re: Bit depth, was Minolta DiMAGE Scan Multi PRO

2001-09-27 by Austin Franklin

> but if you push the image past that point it may
> still look okay on screen but posterize when you print it.

With NO gaps in the histogram?  Do you mean the image may look OK on screen,
or the histogram may look OK on screen?  What's the "it" you refer to?

> So if the
> histogram is good you will not get a posterized print but if the
> histogram is bad you MAY get a posterized print.

Absolutely true.

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